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Conservative PAC still raising off Ryan

By ALEXANDER BURNS

11/06/2012 04:19 PM EST

Jonathan and I wrote last month about the phenomenon of sketchy outside groups cropping up to raise money off hotly contested elections, and then not really spending much of that cash on actual independent expenditures. One of the groups we looked at was the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama, which according to the FEC had raised $3.2 million at the time of its last report and spent just 37.4 percent of that on IEs.

So it may not be surprising for readers to learn that the group blasted out an "URGENT" fundraising appeal at 2:39 p.m. today — hours before voting ends — requesting last-minute funds for "another blitz of robocalls.' The following message went out with a big picture of Paul Ryan at the top:

This is URGENT — and we don't have a lot of time. Polling location analysis indicates there is heavy Democrat turnout so far today. We have to counteract this with a late surge of Republican, and conservative Independent turnout.

We need to do another blitz of Robo Calls and online targeted advertising to get every conservative and conservative-leaning voter to the polls by 8:00 PM tonight. Time is of the essence.

We need everyone to pitch in $25 or $50. If you can afford $100 or $200, that would be very helpful — CONTRIBUTE HERE.

You can contribute as little as $5 up to the maximum allowed amount of $5,000 towards our "Get Out The Vote" campaign — CONTRIBUTE HERE.

It is not standard practice, to put it mildly, for campaigns to fund their GOTV efforts with money raised in the last five hours of Election Day.